Thread: Eyes or lips? How do you hook minnows?

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Originally Posted by Iwannafish

Dead minners work just as good as live minners when trolling. I go thru mouth and out back of head with short shank hooks like the big bit jigheads. Fish don't know if the minner is dead if it is moving and they don't care if they's hungry.


I have always thought this, Cane, but it seems that everybody is convinced that minners must be healthy and lively down here in Mississippi. I wonder? Any other comments on fishing with dead or almost dead minners?

Bunk on the lively minner. If the dead minners didn't work, they wouldn't sell them preserved minners in Wal Mart. Me and Billbob fish with the dead ones. They easy to catch in the minner bucket and easy to put on a hook. Since they are dead, I usually let Billbob catch the minners and hand me one. The work just fine dead. I hook them thru the mouth and out the back of the head when they dead. Heck, I do this with live ones too. They stays on good hooked this way. Don't let anybody bs you about dead minners. I've been at it for over 70 years now.

I don't use nibbles either. They too messy. I just bite off a piece of grub about the size of a nibble and stick it on the end of the hook (just like a nibble) after I put the minner on and it don't stink and I don't git nibble nose. The grub bite also keeps the minner on the hook real good. Old school stuff here.
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Originally Posted by Cane Pole

I don't use nibbles either. They too messy. I just bite off a piece of grub about the size of a nibble and stick it on the end of the hook (just like a nibble) after I put the minner on and it don't stink and I don't git nibble nose. The grub bite also keeps the minner on the hook real good. Old school stuff here.
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I like to have all those little glitter flakes all over my face, hands and arms. Chaunc is a party-pooper. He won't use any but the plain white nibbles.